The art of illustration, by Michel Melot ; [translated from the French by James Emmons]

The Resource The art of illustration, by Michel Melot ; [translated from the French by James Emmons]

The art of illustration, by Michel Melot ; [translated from the French by James Emmons]

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The item The art of illustration, by Michel Melot ; [translated from the French by James Emmons] represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries.

Writing and picturing -- The ambiguities of line -- From pictogram to alphabet -- The "Codex borbonicus" -- The appearance of the diagram -- The "Sacra parallela" of St. John of Damascus -- The Joshua roll -- The word appears -- Hebrew micrography -- The Book of Kells -- Illumination of the text -- The Saint-Sever apocalypse -- Lambert's "Liber floridus" -- Secularization of the image -- The "Ars moriendi" and the Block books -- Around the master of the playing cards -- The image as language -- Sebastian Brant's "Ship of fools" -- "The dream of Polyphilus" -- The order of the text -- The language of technics -- The "De humani corporis fabrica" of Vesalius -- The "Codex Atlanticus" of Leonardo da Vinci -- The theatre of the world -- The "War of love" -- Street cries -- Silent poetry -- Tasso's "Gerusalemme liberata" -- The "Obsidio bredana" and Rubens' title pages -- The world of the senses -- The Almanac of Göttingen -- The plates of the "Encyclopédie" -- Romantic illustration -- "Les Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France" -- Curmer's edition of "Paul et Virginie" -- The way of the writers -- Goethe and Delacroix -- Lewis Carroll, Lear, and Grandville -- The illustrated papers -- "Le Charivari" -- "The illustrated London News" -- The work of the image -- Photographic illustration -- The first book illustrated with photographs: "The pencil of nature" -- Illustrating daily life -- An early illustrated schoolbook -- The illustrated Larousse dictionary -- Illustrating street life -- Secession posters -- Mayakovsky's "Rosta windows" -- The illustrated book -- Odilon Redon's "Temptation of St. Anthony" -- "To the glory of the hand" -- The "Livre d'artiste" in France -- Sonia Delaunay's "Prose du Transsibérien: -- Max Ernst's "La femme 100 têtes" -- From children's books to comic strips -- Perrault's "fairy tales" -- The beginnings of the animated cartoon -- Magazines and reporting -- Photomontage -- From illustration to audiovisual media

Dimensions

35 cm

Extent

269 pages

Isbn

9780847805587

Lccn

84042752

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

n

Other physical details

illustrations (some color)

System control number

(OCoLC)10799293

(OCoLC)ocm10799293

Label

The art of illustration, by Michel Melot ; [translated from the French by James Emmons]

Writing and picturing -- The ambiguities of line -- From pictogram to alphabet -- The "Codex borbonicus" -- The appearance of the diagram -- The "Sacra parallela" of St. John of Damascus -- The Joshua roll -- The word appears -- Hebrew micrography -- The Book of Kells -- Illumination of the text -- The Saint-Sever apocalypse -- Lambert's "Liber floridus" -- Secularization of the image -- The "Ars moriendi" and the Block books -- Around the master of the playing cards -- The image as language -- Sebastian Brant's "Ship of fools" -- "The dream of Polyphilus" -- The order of the text -- The language of technics -- The "De humani corporis fabrica" of Vesalius -- The "Codex Atlanticus" of Leonardo da Vinci -- The theatre of the world -- The "War of love" -- Street cries -- Silent poetry -- Tasso's "Gerusalemme liberata" -- The "Obsidio bredana" and Rubens' title pages -- The world of the senses -- The Almanac of Göttingen -- The plates of the "Encyclopédie" -- Romantic illustration -- "Les Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France" -- Curmer's edition of "Paul et Virginie" -- The way of the writers -- Goethe and Delacroix -- Lewis Carroll, Lear, and Grandville -- The illustrated papers -- "Le Charivari" -- "The illustrated London News" -- The work of the image -- Photographic illustration -- The first book illustrated with photographs: "The pencil of nature" -- Illustrating daily life -- An early illustrated schoolbook -- The illustrated Larousse dictionary -- Illustrating street life -- Secession posters -- Mayakovsky's "Rosta windows" -- The illustrated book -- Odilon Redon's "Temptation of St. Anthony" -- "To the glory of the hand" -- The "Livre d'artiste" in France -- Sonia Delaunay's "Prose du Transsibérien: -- Max Ernst's "La femme 100 têtes" -- From children's books to comic strips -- Perrault's "fairy tales" -- The beginnings of the animated cartoon -- Magazines and reporting -- Photomontage -- From illustration to audiovisual media